Quotes with axiom

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  • Baruch Spinoza But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Aneurin Bevan It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Maxwell Maltz It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Dennis Potter It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read.
    Dennis Potter
    English playwright (1935 - 1994)
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  • Alonzo Church The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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